About Julie

I am a Registered Social Worker with a passion for learning how our attachments and relationships with others, our relationships with ourselves, and how we relate to the world around us affect our sense of balance and wellness. This is often the root cause of anxiety, which current somatic and relational approaches to therapy recognize as a natural nervous system response to anything that upsets that sense of safety.

 

My approach to therapy is a blend of thought-feeling-body awareness and processing that integrates mind-based practices like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, body-based somatic practices, and embraces the spirit of our inner selves through recognition of the human need for creativity, connection and healthy attachment in our relationships, whether with a partner, family, friends, work or the community around us. I work with a gentle yet direct, inquiry-based method to help discover the root cause of feelings, thoughts and behaviours that may be interfering with living from a place of balance in our relationships, work and life that we most often desire.

 

My clients are often seeking support for:

• Relational and attachment-based challenges

• Complex trauma or single event trauma

• Parenting, Birth and Reproductive Challenges or Trauma

• Grief for any kind of loss or transition (relational, job, life stage changes, illness)

• Caregiver Stress and Burnout

 

My practice methods blend the following trainings and modalities:

• Attachment Treatment Model

• Somatic/Polyvagal Theory

• Flash Technique with Zentangle

• IFS

• CBT & DBT Skills

• Multicultural Indigenous Spiritual and Land-Based Perspectives

• Neurodiversity Affirming Mindfulness

• Therapeutic Play and Arts Based Practices